Sajjan Kumar resigns from Congress primary membership

Congress leader Sajjan Kumar has resigned from the Congress by submitting his resignation from the primary membership of the party. He has written to the party president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday informing the same. "I tender my resignation with immediate effect from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress in the wake of the judgement of the hon'be high court of Delhi against me," he said in the letter to Gandhi.

On Monday, the Delhi High Court convicted Kumar for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and sentenced him to imprisonment for life. The court said it was perpetrated by those with "political patronage" and pushed for a new law for speedy prosecution of genocide and mass killings.